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Posted On August 15, 2014By Faridah Demola-SerikiIn Design, Gadgets, Top Stories

REPORT: iPhone 6 Photos Surface

Calling all Apple Fanboys! According to TMZ (yes, TMZ), these are photos of Apple’s iPhone 6 expected to be unveiled September 9th. TMZ obtained the photos from someone whose friend — an ex-employee, worked in Foxconn’s hardware department in China designing the outer casing for the new model. If these are indeed the photos of the new iPhone, you’ll notice it’s bigger and looks more like the 5” displays common these days. It also seems to be running iOS 7, which is apparently for security purposes at the factory. AppleRead More
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LG recently released some videos showing its newly developed 18″ rollable OLED screens and  18″ transparent OLED screens. The flexible OLED screen can roll up to a radius of about 3 cm and the transparent OLED screen has a transmittance of about 30% which gives a clearer viewing experience compared to LCD screens. With the funding of the Korean government, LG has an ambitious plan to develop  massive 60″ flexible and transparent models for sale by the year 2017. Source: Oled-info  Read More
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  BlackBerry is set to launch a new phone into the market this September called “Passport”. BlackBerry’s CEO, John Chen announced this at BlackBerry’s Q1 earnings call. As the name goes, the phone is just about the same size as a passport. The phone is expected to have the normal QWERTY keyboard like other Blackberry phones, but little is known about the specs of the  phone. Blackberry phone sales and market shares have dropped drastically from last year as they have lost out to other top smartphone manufacturers like AppleRead More
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Amazon has finally announced its smartphone and dubbed it “Fire Phone”. The phone comes after years of countless rumors. We’ll go right into the specs. Fire Phone sports a 4.7-inch HD LCD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. It’s 8.9mm slim and weighs 160 grams. On the inside the Fire Phone gains power from a 2.2GHz Quad-core Snapdragon 800 CPU, with Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of RAM. Internal storage is at 32GB or 64GB. The Fire Phone runs Amazon’s Android-forked Fire OS 3.5.0.   For cameras, theRead More
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Today at WWDC, Apple is reportedly unveiling it new operating systems both for iOS (iOS 8) and for the Mac (OS X 10.1) along with other announcements mostly software related. You can watch the event live via the live stream, but only if its an Apple device. To live stream the event on your Apple device you must be running Safari 4 or later on OS X 10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later; or second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later. Once you have allRead More
BlackBerry announced 2 low end devices to its BlackBerry 10 range – the Blackberry Z3 and Q20. The Z3 is like its predecessors the Z30 and Z10 while the Q20 features a touch screen and keyboard combo like the Q5 and Q10. BlackBerry Q20 The BlackBerry Q20 features a 3.5-inch touchscreen display and a physical keyboard. BlackBerry calls it a “Classic” and it brings back the Menu, Back, Send and End buttons. It even has the good old trackpad BlackBerry is famous for. John Chen, BlackBerry’s Executive Chairman and CEORead More
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Posted On February 25, 2014By Paul OgunlowoIn Business, Gadgets, Mobile, Top Stories

Samsung Unveils The Galaxy S5 [SPECS]

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S5 dubbed  ‘The Next Big Thing’ at their Samsung Unpacked Event at Mobile World Congress yesterday. The Galaxy S5 is the successor of the Galaxy S4 and it improves upon its predecessor in almost every aspect. The Galaxy S5, much like its predecessor, will launch with a 5.1 inch, 1080p display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, just .1 inches bigger than the S4. It also comes packed with a 2.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and 2GB of RAM. Internal memory options areRead More
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Posted On February 24, 2014By Faridah Demola-SerikiIn Gadgets, Mobile, Top Stories

Watch Samsung’s Unpacked Event Live

Samsung’s Unpacked event starts at 7pm GMT and we expect a Galaxy S5 among other things. Watch it live from the Mobile World CongressRead More
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At Mobile World Congress last night, Nokia announced a lineup of its Android phones. The phones are the Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL. The three phones are manufactured by Nokia but run a forked Android version called “Nokia X”. Nokia has built its own services and interface on Google’s Android and the OS has no ties to Google. It reminds us of the Android version on Amazon’s Kindle Fire range. We’ll go into specs, features, photos and videos of the Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL. Nokia X+Read More
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Posted On February 19, 2014By BinjoIn Gadgets, Mobile, Top Stories

Is This The iPhone 6?[PHOTOS]

Sonny Dickson, a renowned Apple device leaker has leaked pictures of what might be the iPhone 6. The pictures were posted via his Twitter account. From his images, we can see what is a purported casing of an iPhone 6 with a 4.7 inches diagonal display iPhone phablet with a 5.5-inch display. Another set of pictures have leaked from MacRumors. These give us a better look into the design of the purported iPhone 6. Apple is known for secrecy in its plans for any of its devices and services. However, lastRead More